In and Out of Focus

Jan 08, 2014By Mike Hilleary

After delivering his own solo album Between the Times & Tides in 2012, last year Lee Ranaldo teamed with his former Sonic Youth cohort Steve Shelley and a few friends to form a new band, Lee Ranaldo and The Dust. More

To Raise $50,000 For Strike Debt

Oct 24, 2012By Mike Hilleary

After making a surprise appearance at Zuccotti Park last year, performing for the members of the Occupy Wall Street movement, Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Mangum has joined forced with Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo, Fugazi's Guy Picciotto, and TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe to take part in a special Occupy telethon on Nov. 15. More

Rooftop Wanderer

Oct 19, 2012By Mike Hilleary

Continuing to support his new solo album Between the Times & Tides, Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo has premiered a music video for one of the record's more quiet, contemplative tracks, "Stranded." More

Wingardium Leviosa

Track From Upcoming Between the Tides and the Times

Feb 09, 2012By Mike Hilleary

Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo still has a ways to go before his forthcoming solo LP Between the Tides and the Times sees release on March 20, but that hasn't stopped the man from debuting a low-budget music video for the album's lead single "Off the Wall." More

Between the Times & the Tides Out March 20

Nov 10, 2011By Laura Studarus

While the future of Sonic Youth has been thrown into question by the marital spit between bandleaders Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon, band member Lee Ranaldo has been busy striking out on his own, recording forthcoming solo album Between theTimes & the Tides. More

Interviews

Ranaldo on "Me Too" and Sexual Harassment, Trump's First Year, and That Time Sonic Youth Tried to Change Their Name

Jan 25, 2018By Mark Redfern

For Under the Radar's 15th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to the last year. We asked them about their favorite albums of the year and their thoughts on various notable 2017 news stories involving either the music industry or world events, as well as some quirkier personal questions. More

Between the Times & the Tides

Matador

Mar 19, 2012By John Everhart

Temporality has always been a paramount concern in the songs of Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo. There's been a certain devil-may-care loose improvisation at play with Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, but Ranaldo's songs are rooted in the bedrock idioms of aging, mortality and vulnerability. More